Honest Scrap Tag!

Judi, Judi, Judi!! I'm gonna get you for this!! I'm grateful that I'm worthy, but I'm not that amazing or interesting! Haha!!

A) First list 10 honest things about yourself - and make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!
B) Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of the Honest Scrap.

Hmmm... I did this SO long ago, but let's see what I can come up with:
1- I don't care much about vehicles. Really doesn't matter all that much to me what I'm driving or how clean it is. If I do clean it, it's prolly going to be the interior because at least that stays clean for a while. I feel like going through the car wash is throwing money away because two days later, your car is dirty. Why bother?!

2-I am very, very bad at remembering birthdays. I don't know what it is and I really have no excuse. My poor best friend who is the greatest at always having THE perfect gift for me everytime, can attest to this. She has received a couple flower deliveries over the years. =] I love you. =]

3-One of my pet peeves is an open mail box. I can't stand it. If you have one on your house where the lid flips up/down. SHUT the lid please! If you have one at the roadside with a little door, kindly close the little door. Makes me crazy!

4-I am guilty of going "offline" while on Facebook now and then. Sometimes I can't keep up with the chats!!

5-In my heart I would really love to adopt again. Children are amazing. The process is sadly so long and costly.

6- There used to be a time not so many years ago where I couldn't stand to spend an entire day at home without leaving to go somewhere. Now, give me a day where I have no where to go and I can stay home in my pj's and I'm loving life!

7- I enjoy writing. Casual writing, blogging, about what's going on with us, around us, etc.

8-My house has to be neat. Pretty much everything has it's place and I can't stand messiness. That's where baskets come in handy. You can throw a category of things into one in seconds and it looks pretty darn good.

9- I love the beach. It's so relaxing and beautiful. It's also easy to throw some pb&j sandwiches, water, crackers, towels & the kids in the van and head to one for the day. LOVE it. : )

10- I miss my grandfather. He was just a nice man and I can still hear his laugh and his sneeze! LOL It was unique! He told me over and over again how proud he was of me while I was growing up. I really missed his presence when I graduated from college and the day that I got married. He would have really enjoyed knowing my girls too. : )

The following 7 bloggers are tagged to tell their 10 truths:
Kelly- Love reading her blog. Great girl and she is amazing with expressing herself.
Maryann- Miss Bella's mommy. Loves her baby girl AND Mickey Mouse!
Lisa- Hilarious and a worry wart! =] It's amazing how you can never meet someone in person, but feel like you "know" them. :)
Bryn- Excellent writer! I love her blog everytime AND her little K was Alena's playmate in China at the White Swan.
Angela- Awesome mom with some madd time management skilz!!
Lisa- Something about Lisa is so calming to me. She takes life at a fantastic pace and even when she's upset, still seems to have it together.
Tiff- This girl is funnnnny! (And apparently she needs to give the Nintendo DS's BACK TO THE KIDS and come do this.) Haha!

Thanks ladies!! Spill it and happy blogging.

Hehehe....

Someone...got two new pair of boots which she prefers to wear ALL the time! She's awesome. Out of the blue she'll say "I so happy!". Me too. :)

I'm not alone....

on the timing!!
Hope you all had an outstanding Christmas.
Every year we attend the Miller's Christmas Eve open house and I didn't want this year to be any different, so I got my sorry butt in the shower and threw on some yoga pants! Fred came home from work feeling nauseous and feverish and it just got worse through the night with abdominal pain and back pain.
The last time he saw his urologist to check his kidneys, he told him he has a large gallstone and if he ever has pain with a fever and/or jaundice to go to the ER. He was trying to avoid that so that he could see the girls open their gifts Christmas morning, so we looked like morons checking his face and eyes for jaundice all night!
As soon as we all finished with the gifts, we headed to the hospital. He has multiple kidney stones and that gallstone, so he's on pain meds, has to have an ultrasound of the gall bladder and see his urologist again.
We're falling apart!!
Our Christmas Day was indeed different, but could have been worse. :)
I'm pretty much recovered from Tuesday's surgery. A little sore, but not bad and the stitches are getting pretty itchy!
I'm off until Jan. 5th. Looking forward to the Badendyck's annual open house tomorrow and visiting with some more family for Christmas next weekend!
Last, but certainly not least, we have a certain little someone's birthday coming up! She says she wants a "pretty pink flower party", so that's what she'll get. :)

My amazing timing...

I had emergency surgery 10 years ago, for an ectopic pregnancy the day before a fairly large 30th birthday party I was throwing for Fred. Thankfully I have fantastic family and friends and the party went on while I laid on a chaise enjoying Percocet.
Five months later I went into preterm labor with Sophia and was hospitalized the week before Christmas for what turned out to be a three month stay. A lot of the same family and friends celebrated Christmas with me in the hospital and they kept coming for the duration.
This past Saturday I started having pretty bad sharp pains in my lower left abdomen that just persisted. Tuesday I spent the day in the hospital ruling out a kidney stone and diverticulitis. Their conclusion was that I had calcifications on the left ovary and fibroids. They gave me pain medication that ended up making me reallllly sick and told me to follow up with my ob/gyn. Wednesday things were getting worse, saw the ob/gyn and had an ultrasound. There are only two fibroids that are only 1 cm. big, not causing any problems. They did find fluid indicating that a cyst had burst, but with my symptoms he really feels that the ovary that was involved with the ectopic pregnancy is twisted and needs to come out. They had removed the middle third of the tube and reattached it and he thinks that as scar tissue has formed, this is what has happened and that's causing all of the pain.
SO, Tuesday he's going to remove it. Should be a one day deal. Kinda stinks to be recovering over Christmas, but what can you do?!
The girls got their Christmas pj's from Auntie Kathy yesterday. Alena did not know what to make of the light up elf slippers and Sophia hasn't taken them off since! Thank you Aunt Kathy!!
We are getting a pretty large snow fall today that is so pretty. I've been sitting by the fire all day and the girls made a gingerbread house.
Merry Christmas everyone!!